The world belongs to the energetic.

Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much.

My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.

And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires.

Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave; and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of his word, aman of honor, but, that, in failing circumstances, no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.

Science, Nature,-O, I've yearned to open some page.

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.